Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty

Butts, Michele T.

ISBN 10: 0870816756 / ISBN 13: 9780870816758

Published by Univ. Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2003

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xvi + 292 pp., b/w photos & illus., footnotes, appendices, bib., index. Confederate prisoners of war permitted to enlist in the Union Army & generally sent to the West (but not always) to fight. Flat signed by the author beneath her name on the t.p. Hard cover book in fine cond., d/w also in fine cond.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty
• Publisher: Univ. Press of Colorado, Boulder
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870816756
• ISBN 13: 9780870816758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Looks at the history of Confederate prisoners of war who joined the Union Army.

Synopsis

Only a handful of historians have explored the unique nature of the Galvanised Yankees -- Confederate prisoners of war permitted to enlist in the Union army -- and the role they played in the West during the Civil War. Rarer still are detailed studies of individual regiments. Michele Tucker Butts sheds welcome light on the triumphs and travails of one such unit, the First United States Volunteers and their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dimon. Their story provides a telescopic view of issues that would sweep the nation for the remainder of the nineteenth century: the promise and anxiety inherent in post-Civil War nation building, the complexities involved in westward expansion, and the changing nature of mid-nineteenth century manhood. Butts seamlessly maintains a human face on events of national import, punctuating her thoroughly researched narrative with excerpts from Dimon's letters home. This compelling account of the First United States Volunteers will appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in the Civil War as well as Western and military history.